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How to Use the United States Government Agency Section
of the Statistics Resources Research Guide for Statistical Data Sources
for Specific Topic Searches

Finding and using statistical sources is a challenge for most students and many researchers. Finding government statistical sources are even more of a befuddlement. Requests for govenment information, let alone statistics, have dwindled in recent years in live reference situations. Providing a tool that shows, agency by agency, where government statistics hide in a group of links to database search results contributes to statistical literacy and to information literacy for government statistical sources and to the uses for government statistics.

Even though the actual publications found in these searches are not free, all of the databases used are. Over fifty government agencies of the United States federal government are now included and this is a work in progress as is the entire statistics resource guide. United States government agencies do provide statistical data for other countries.

Many teachers tell students not to use Google for serious research as I religiously did until October 2014 when I saw one web address on the MedLib-L discussion group. I have no idea what the post was about, I just noticed one web address and as the lesson evolved, I started joining the students rather than trying to change them in regards to using Google Web Search as part of my database searching research tool.

This message provides examples of internet based guides to the searching platforms and the database search structure found in the search tools of various databanks (companies that lease or sell access to bibliographic databases).

Libraries pay a huge sum of money to purchase databases. It would make sense to use guides to teach database skills or point students to sources that teach them. Proquest, for example, provides a number of Libguides that are free on the web and teach some skills and techniques that are promoted for getting the best results from their databases. In your guides, appropriate Proquest Libguide(s) may be listed under the entries for Proquest databases.

Resources teaching the syntax, structure, and instruction in best practices for searching databases from Google, EbscoHost, Proquest, Ovid and PubMed are included in this Webliography.

Temple University Libraries Tips and Links

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Temple University Tips and Links

The content below on this web page consists of an Internet Archive
snapshot of the Temple University Index on the main University
website page. Addition of current links was not possible on library
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Temple University's Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR) consists of a diverse group that meets regularly and considers issues to provide advice to our President, Provost, constituencies and other TU leaders.

Our TLTR is designed to bring together people who would not otherwise work together on educational improvements (for example, technology leaders with faculty who are not yet enthusiastic users of technology for teaching).

The content below on this web page consists of an Internet Archive snapshot of the Temple University Index on the main University website page. Addition of current links was not possible on library guides. Therefore this link provides a site that has both the Internet Archive links in the text link and a web URL for the actual Temple Address for these departments, services and resources.

Scholarly Research and Applications of the Wikipedia
RE: Metropolitan Destinations That Straddle International Borders : "Albeit Wikipedia"

On a tourism discussion group the question below was asked and an excellent response provided perhaps the only source out there with an answer, perhaps there are other sources of this information, perhaps not.
The key fact is that an apology of sorts was needed for this information as the answer provided came from the black sheep of academic knowledge in the minds of many academicians. DO NOT USE THE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE IN YOUR PAPERS. Really?

Use Edit/Find within the links to search each of these phrases without the quotation marks sequentially to find the search examples on the sites found with this search:
"database search"
"domain limited"
"temple summon"
"search results"

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Journals of the executive proceedings of the United States Senate 1789 to 1980, covering the first Congress through the 96th Congress.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports

The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
World Newspaper ArchivePublished by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc., in cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries.

A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.

This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
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Daily News, The
Bucks County Courier Times
Centre Daily Times
Evening Sun, The
Intelligencer, The
Lancaster New Era
Morning Call, The
Observer-Reporter
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Inquirer, The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Public Opinion
Times Leader, The
York Daily Record/York Sunday News
York Dispatch, The
Acceda Noticias
Pennsylvania
The World
United States

Archive of AmericanaPublished by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc.

This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.Use the links below to search or browse a single collection, or do full-text searches across multiple collections:

African American Periodicals

Explore African American history, culture and society in the 19th and 20th centuries.
America's Historical Imprints

Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera enable researchers to explore America's distant and not so distant past. Available here: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I; Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819.
America's Historical Newspapers

Searchable American newspapers enable users to explore America's past. Available here: Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876; Series 1 (ETC); Series 2, 1758-1900; Series 2 (ETC); Series 3, 1829-1922; Series 3 (ETC); Series 4, 1756-1922; Series 4 (ETC); Series 5, 1777-1922; Series 5 (ETC); African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society and Selected Historical Newspapers.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876

Contains more than 140 newspaper titles from 22 islands between 1718-1876.

House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817

Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States.
Senate Executive Journals, 1789 - 1980

Journals of the executive proceedings of the United States Senate 1789 to 1980, covering the first Congress through the 96th Congress.
The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction

Featuring newspapers, government documents and rare printed materials, this collection from the Readex Archive of Americana covers politics, society and daily life during the American Civil War period: 1840-1877.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports

The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
World Newspaper ArchivePublished by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc., in cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries.

A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.

Search Results Include Titles Like These:
Covering the semantic space of tourism: an approach based on modularized ontologies
Search engine visibility of national tourism promotion websites: a case of Nepal
A theoretic discussion of tourism e-commerce
Supporting tourism decision making with linked data
Taiwan's challenges for significant international tourism market growth
Mapping the tourism mobile applications: what, how and where

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

FINDS 2000 Results.

This may represent a limit to the number of results any search can produce in this database. This is evidenced by searching parts of these search terms and getting the same result. Date range searching can be used to see a complete set of results by searching in chronological parts of the result using the advanced search feature.

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality finds A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists
OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality finds these results:

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality Early American Fiction 1789–1875

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality Early American Fiction 1789–1875

Your search matched 59794 (limited to 4000) documents.
Corporate Annual Reports
A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality finds hospitality
FINDS 41,867 Results

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality finds: English Poetry

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality finds: English Poetry, Second Edition

A search of this database for (tourism or tourist or tourists or museums or travel or vacation or vacations or vacationing or (visitor adj1 sites adj2 interest) or ecotourism or hospitality).mp. [mp=title, acronym, descriptors, measure descriptors, sample descriptors, abstract, source]

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text‎ (1874 - current)
International Index to Performing Arts Full Text‎ (1864 - current)
A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality
FINDS 236 entries, 2312 hits

for Title, Abstract, Authors, Keyword or ISSN/ISBN/DOI containing ‘tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality’

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

FINDS 759 Books Online.

Sample of Book Titles:

Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States
On Holiday: A History of Vacationing
Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City
The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to ‘Culture’, 1800–1918
The Ethics of Sightseeing
Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915
All this is your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930

A search of this database for tourism OR tourist OR tourists OR museums OR travel OR vacation OR vacations OR vacationing OR "visitor sites of interest" OR ecotourism OR hospitality

FINDS 110 Results

Sample Citations:
Tsunami-exposed tourist survivors: signs of recovery in a 3-year perspective
Tsunami-affected Scandinavian tourists: disaster exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms
2004 tsunami: long-term psychological consequences for Swiss tourists in the area at the time of the disaster
Hallmarks of posttraumatic stress: symptom Z-scores in a tsunami-affected tourist population
Revisiting Vietnam: memoirs, memorials, museums [dissertation]
Experiences of chronic stress one year after the Gulf Oil Spill

STATISTICS :
RESEARCH GUIDES :
How to Use the United States Government Agency Section
of the Statistics Resources Research Guide for Statistical Data Sources
for Specific Topic Searches

Finding and using statistical sources is a challenge for most students and many researchers. Finding government statistical sources are even more of a befuddlement. Requests for govenment information, let alone statistics, have dwindled in recent years in live reference situations. Providing a tool that shows, agency by agency, where government statistics hide in a group of links to database search results contributes to statistical literacy and to information literacy for government statistical sources and to the uses for government statistics.

Even though the actual publications found in these searches are not free, all of the databases used are. Over fifty government agencies of the United States federal government are now included and this is a work in progress as is the entire statistics resource guide. United States government agencies do provide statistical data for other countries.

Many teachers tell students not to use Google for serious research as I religiously did until October 2014 when I saw one web address on the MedLib-L discussion group. I have no idea what the post was about, I just noticed one web address and as the lesson evolved, I started joining the students rather than trying to change them in regards to using Google Web Search as part of my database searching research tool.

"Core" coverage refers to sources which are indexed and abstracted in their entirety (i.e. cover to cover), while Selective" coverage refers to sources with an occasional volume of material relevant to the field.

A Selection of Core Journals Important to Tourism
Tourism and Hospitality Journal and Periodical Lists
Guides, Directories and Analysis of the Periodical or Journal Publications in Tourism and Hospitality
Some Journal Article and Directory Resources
Ranking and Evaluation of Tourism and Hospitality Journals

Tourism Related Dictionaries

Dictionary of Leisure , Travel and Tourism
Publisher: A & C Black
Format: P/Bk
ISBN: 9780713685459
Publication Date: 2007
Description: Topics covered include travel,
tourism, ticketing, hotels and staff,
restaurants, kitchens, table settings,
service and cooking, along with general
business, accounting and personnel terms.
Handy supplements include quick-reference
lists of airline and airport codes, currencies,
internationaldialling codes, time zones,
balance sheets and international public
holidays. Ideal for students, employers, or
employees who work in any part of the
hotelor tourism industry or who need to use
specialist English vocabulary for their
work or studies.

Tourism Related Handbooks

This is a selected group of handbooks
of various kinds that illustrate and
support the role of the handbook
in providing topically specific but
detailed coverage of various aspects
of tourism including specific
geographic regions and places of
interest to tourism and tourists.

From the ODLIS Online Dictionary
for Library and Information Science
by Joan M. Reitz

This definition of handbook:

handbook

A single-volume reference book of
compact size that provides concise
factual information on a specific
subject, organized systematically for
quick and easy access. Statistical
information is often published in
handbook form (example: Statistical
Handbook on the American Family). Some
handbooks are published serially
(CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics).
Synonymous with vade mecum.
See also: companion and manual.

A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference.
A vade mecum (lat. "go with me") or pocket reference is intended to be carried at all times.
Handbooks may deal with any topic, and are generally compendiums of information in a particular field or about a particular technique. The name "handbook" may sometimes be applied to reference works that are not pocket-sized, but do provide ready reference, as is the case with several engineering handbooks....

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Where to start?
What have we got?
Who do we want?
How do we get them? Part 1
How do we get them? Part 2
Keeping the tourist
Measuring success
Getting extra help
References
Index

1. Business Plans are More Important Now than Ever 30 kb
2. Sources of Small Business Assistance 15 kb
3. A Business Plan is Important When Working With a Lender 105 kb
4. Training Helps Farm Market Employees Succeed 93 kb

Global Property Rights in Genetic Resources: Do They Involve Sound Economics? Will They Conserve Nature and Biodiversity?;pp. 199-212
(Clem Tisdell, School of Economice, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

The Economics of Threatened Species Conservation: A Review and Analysis;pp. 213-235
(Ray T. Sterner,National Wildlife Research Center,Colorado)

Effects of Oil Pollution on Nickel and Vanadium Concentrations in Soil and in the Tissues of the Desert Lizard Acanthodactylus scutellatus at Kuwait’s Greater Al-Burgan Oil Field;pp. 311-317
(M.A. Al-Hashem Department of Biological Sciences, Kuwait University and P.F. Brain, Department of Biological Sciences, School of the Environment and Society, Swansea University, Swansea)

Intrinsic Value as the Nodal Point of the Hegemonic Environmentalist Representation of Nature: Implications for Nature Conservation and environmental Education;pp. 347-362
(Tasos Hovardas - Learning in Science Group, Dept. of Education, Univ. of Cyprus)

Assessing the Role of the Host Immune System in Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases in Amphibian Populations Using Laboratory Animal Models;pp. 407-424
(Heidi D. Morales Diaz, Jacques Robert - Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY)

Short Communications

"Nature Feeling", Nature Walk with Challenged People in Japan;pp. 425-432
(Yoshiko Toriyama - Univ. of Tsukuba, Office for Students with Disabilities, Japan)

Conserving a Forgotten Endowment: Use of Manihot Species Genetic Resources in the Betterment of Cassava at a Time of Global Climate Change;pp. 433-445
(Nagib M. Nassar, Rodomiroo Ortiz - Univ. de Brasilia, Brazil and others)

"Handbook of Hospitality Operations
and IT provides an authoritative
resource for critical reviews of
research into both operations and
IT management. Internationally
renowned scholars provide in-depth
essays and explanations of case
studies, to illustrate how practices
and concepts can be applied to the
hospitality industry."

From the introduction: "In a nutshell, medical tourism is the practice of traveling outside one's hometown to access medical or dental care, or costly and sophisticated diagnostic testing. For most medical travelers, depending on the destination location and procedure sought, the savings can be from 50% to as great as 90% of the price paid at home. It amazes me when people in the health care and insurance industries look at me dumbfounded when I speak about medical tourism. Some furrow their eyebrows, others shake their heads in bewilderment, and still others dismiss the idea with some offhand comment that if they ignore it, it will not exist. I have a cat that does the last response to many things, but she's a cat. Most of the folks I hang out with are executives in health care or insurance, health law attorneys, academics, or health care professionals. Not cats! So when they dismiss this growing trend, I have to wonder where they will be in the next 5 years. In the United States, there are around 7,500 hospitals with their doors still open. That too, amazes me when I see who is at the helm, and their leadership style, market awareness, and lack of strategic planning."